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Marie Prevost
Born · November 7, 1896
Died · January 23, 1937 (40 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Bio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 - January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures. Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925). After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Harlan in 1927, which fueled her depression. She began to abuse alcohol and binge eat, resulting in a weight gain that made it difficult for her to secure acting jobs. By 1935, Prevost was only able to secure bit parts in films. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1936. After years of drinking, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 38 in January 1937. Prevost's estate was valued at $300 since she had squandered most of her earnings. Her death prompted the Hollywood community to create the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
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1943
Wedding Yells
Winifred Snood
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1942
A Small Town Idol
Marcelle
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1939
Ten Laps to Go
Elsie, Cafe Waitress
4.0
1936
13 Hours by Air
Waitress in Omaha
4.3
1936
Tango
Betty Barlow, Treasure's Roomate
5.0
1936
Hands Across the Table
Nona
6.8
1935
Keystone Hotel
Mrs. Clarabelle Sterling
8.0
1935
Only Yesterday
Amy (Uncredited)
6.8
1933
The Eleventh Commandment
Tessie Florin
0.0
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
6.5
1933
Parole Girl
Jeanie Vance
5.8
1933
Slightly Married
Nellie Gordon
5.5
1932
Carnival Boat
Babe
5.0
1932
Three Wise Girls
Dot
5.5
1932
Hell Divers
Lulu
6.4
1932
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Rosalie
5.9
1931
Reckless Living
Alice
3.0
1931
The Runaround
Margy
7.0
1931
Sporting Blood
Angela 'Angie' Ludeking
5.5
1931
The Good Bad Girl
Trixie Barnes
5.5
1931
It's a Wise Child
Annie Ostrom
0.0
1931
Gentleman's Fate
Mabel
5.5
1931
Paid
Agnes Lynch
6.8
1930
War Nurse
Rosalie
5.1
1930
Sweethearts on Parade
Nita
1.0
1930
Ladies of Leisure
Dot Lamarr
6.1
1930
Party Girl
Diana Hoster
3.3
1930
The Flying Fool
Pat Riley
5.5
1929
Divorce Made Easy
Mabel Deering
0.0
1929
All Faces West
Arleta Vance
0.0
1929
The Sideshow
Queenie Parker
0.0
1928
The Racket
Helen Hayes
6.6
1928
The Godless Girl
Mame
7.0
1928
A Blonde for a Night
Marie
5.1
1928
On to Reno
Vera
6.0
1928
The Rush Hour
Margie Dolan
0.0
1927
The Girl in the Pullman
Irene Burton
0.0
1927
Getting Gertie's Garter
Gertie Darling
7.3
1927
Man Bait
Madge Dreyer
0.0
1927
Almost a Lady
Marcia Blake
0.0
1926
Up in Mabel's Room
Mabel Ainsworth
6.5
1926
Other Women's Husbands
Kay Lambert
0.0
1926
The Cave Man
Myra Gaylord
0.0
1926
His Jazz Bride
Gloria Gregory
0.0
1926
Seven Sinners
Molly Brian
6.0
1925
Bobbed Hair
Connemara Moore
0.0
1925
Kiss Me Again
LouLou Fleury
0.0
1925
Recompense
Julie Gmelyn
0.0
1925
The Dark Swan
Eve Quinn
0.0
1924
The Lover of Camille
Marie Duplessis
0.0
1924
Three Women
Harriet
3.5
1924
Tarnish
Nettie Dark
0.0
1924
Cornered
0.0
1924
Being Respectable
Valerie Winship
0.0
1924
Daughters of Pleasure
Marjory Hadley
0.0
1924
How to Educate a Wife
Mabel Todd
0.0
1924
The Hollywood Kid
Self
5.3
1924
The Marriage Circle
Mizzi Stock
6.4
1924
The Wanters
Myra Hastings
0.0
1923
Red Lights
Ruth Carson
0.0
1923
Brass
Marjorie Jones
3.0
1923
Heroes of the Street
Betty Benton
0.0
1922
The Beautiful and Damned
0.0
1922
The Married Flapper
Pamela Billings
0.0
1922
Her Night of Nights
Molly May Mahone
0.0
1922
Kissed
0.0
1922
A Parisian Scandal
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1921
Nobody's Fool
0.0
1921
Moonlight Follies
Nan Rutledge
0.0
1921
Call a Cop
The Banker's Daughter
0.0
1921
She Sighed by the Seaside
The Beach Girl
0.0
1921
A Small Town Idol
Marcelle Mansfield
6.0
1921
Down on the Farm
The Faithful Wife
5.5
1920
Why Beaches Are Popular
Bathing Girl
0.0
1919
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
A Daughter of Belgium
5.3
1919
Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
Herself
0.0
1919
She Loved Him Plenty
5.0
1918
His Hidden Purpose
The Girl in the Case
0.0
1918
Two Crooks
The Girl
0.0
1917
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Lady Platt's Niece
0.0
1917
Her Nature Dance
The Cashier
0.0
1917
Sunshine
0.0
1916
Unto Those Who Sin
Celeste
0.0
1916